Why are tornadoes so bad?

Answer 1

Interestingly. Most tornado deaths come from the strongest 5% of tornadoes. These tornadoes often carry debris, much of it from destroyed buildings, with their intense winds. This debris can be deadly when it strikes a person.

Most tornado deaths result from flying debris. Other deaths may result from collapsing buildings or people being directly lifted up and thrown.

Answer 2

Tornadoes are bad because they can cause a lot of damage to property, injure people and even cause fatalities.

The best way to overcome them is with early warning systems and better construction of housing in their area.

Answer 3

A tornado is a vortex of very high-speed winds, and these winds can create incredible damage in a number of ways. The obvious way is by picking things up and throwing them violently around. This includes people, cars, boats, and even massive objects like boxcars and water tanks. A person would be lucky to survive being caught in the winds.

A tornado normally creates a cloud of dust and debris. The dust can choke people and animals, and the debris can include large pieces of wood, bricks, glass, and sharp metal. These can cause serious injury or death. Trees and telephone poles are snapped like twigs and thrown into houses.

The winds can easily destroy power lines and wires, dropping them onto vehicles, trees, and houses. Fortunately this usually cuts power to many of the dangling wires, but not always.

Being inside a building is dangerous because the wind can rip off roofs and walls. People have survived storms hiding in bathtubs and in basements. But the safest place to be is in a dedicated underground storm shelter until the storm has passed.

Answer 4

A thunderstorm must meet at least one of 3 criteria to be considered severe.

1. Winds to at least 58 mph (93 km/h)
2. Hail to at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter
3. Produces a tornado

Answer 5

Tornadoes are severe because of their damaging, often destructive winds. The winds are the low pressure at the center of the tornado drawing air inward and upward. The pressure deficit is comparable to that of a hurricane, except it drops over a distance of a few hundred to a few thousand feet, rather than a few hundred miles.

Most tornadoes develop from a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone found in some severe thunderstorms, usually supercells. This area is several miles across and gets tightened into a smaller circulation, causing the rotation to accelerate.

Answer 6

They are dangerous for somewhat diffeerent reasons. Hurricane winds drive seawater onto land in what is called a storm surge. This can lead to drowning and can be very destructive, washing away buildings and roads. Hurricanes also produce torrential rain, which can lead to major flooding away from land with similar effects to the storm surge. Hurricane winds can also be dangerous, capable of shattering windows, toppling trees, and badly damaging homes and buildings, though generally only weak structures will be destroyed.

Tornadoes produce extremely powerful winds, often stronger than those found in hurricanes. Homes and buildings may collapse or be torn apart. Pieces of damaged or destroyed structures may be pciked up by the winds and turned into lethal high-speed projectiles. People directly exposed to the winds will likely be picked up and carried to their deaths.

Answer 7

because they can rip down houses and hurt people

Answer 8

Tornadoes are destructive because they have extremely fast winds that, in a strong enough tornado can tear buildings apart and turn normally harmless objects into high-speed projectiles.